Precious Plastic

Collaborative Project
Summer 2019

• Recycled Plastic

Precious Plastic is an open source plastic recycling project and is a type of open source digital commons project, now in its fourth iteration. It relies on a series of machines and tools which grind, melt, and inject recycled plastic, allowing for the creation of new products out of recycled plastic on a small scale. As a Product Designer for Precious Plastic, I worked to develop their most highly-requested product: a geodesic dome.

After extensive material research we determined that in a dome, the most effective, affordable, and structurally sound use of recycled plastic is as injection-molded connecting hubs. The beams are made of readily-available pine.